Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many, Dr. Zinsser was regarded as the world's leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history. This year he announced a method for mass production of a typhus vaccine...
...chemist. The young man went to Columbia, decided to be a writer, switched to biology, then to medicine. When he saw that most of his patients were scared by his fanatical thoroughness, he turned to research and teaching. During World War I he went to Serbia to fight the typhus which ravaged that country after the Austrian invasion, later served with the U. S. Army in France in the Medical Corps. For the past 17 years he was professor of bacteriology at Harvard, periodically traipsed over the world in pursuit of his typhus research. He once caught the disease himself...
Still to be tried on a mass scale are new typhus vaccines which have been produced independently by breeding Rickettsiae on chicken eggs, both by Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans Zinsser and by Dr. Herald Rea Cox of the U. S. Public Health Service. About 8,000 doses of this new vaccine already have been sent to Hungary...
When the Germans moved into Poland last fall, they lugged with them portable shower baths, ran farm motors to make steam for delousing Polish prisoners. Because of these thorough precautions, there has been no large-scale typhus epidemic in louse-ridden Poland, although the disease has flickered there, as it has in China, for many years. Warsaw has suffered from typhoid fever, a disease quite different from typhus, transmitted by typhoid bacilli which lodge in human excrement, food, water...
...have the Finns been plagued with typhus. Bi-weekly steam baths are their chief protection. Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service, who recently spent a month traveling through Finland, believes that there is no danger of a typhoid epidemic...